Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-06-07
Hidden Wealth Of Boise a..,.,

banner placer camps of the world
and will before many years be among
tne very best quartz districts of Ida
no. The country has been but little
prospected for quartz mines, as CON-
pared with other districts of Idaho.
and has many paying mines, and new
discoveries are made every year.
Notwithstanding we have great faith
IN the future of this section as a pros
porous quartz district, and with con.
stantly increasing yield, we believe
that the greater amount of hidden
wealth is not in quartz, but under
meath what the placer miners term a
false bedrock sedementary forma-
ton, deposited when the Basin was
lake, this theory being the generally
accepted one. Such formation has
never been known in any placer
camp outside of two in Austral-
Ia. These camps were abandoned
worked out, as was supposed-until
some philosophical miner conceived
the idea that there was probably pay
ground between this false bedrock
and the true bedrock. This forma-
ton was gone through and rich pay
struck, and these camps were again
rich producers. Hon. Joseph Travis,
OF this county, was in Australia when
this enterprising miner, with no capi-
tai save his muscle, sank his shaft to
pay dirt. He would work for wages,
get little money, and then go to
work in his shaft. When his money
was gone, he would again work for
wages, get little grub stake and re-
sumo work in his shaft, and finally he
demonstrated bis theory and met his
reward. The same attempt was made
here, great many years ago, by
company that sunk shaft OH Elk
creek, just west of town, to the depth
of one hundred feet. They we're not
properly prepared for carrying on the
work, and water, that they were not
prepared to contend with, came in
suddenly, and work was just as sud-
denly stopped. The test could be
made with no great expense by sink
ing on higher ground, where the dis
tance to granite bedrock would not
be very great, and if the people here
would unite in this undertaking, the
cost, to each, would be insignificant,
and the good reasons for believing
that pay exists underneath this "false
bedrock" ought to be sufficient in
centive to cause a test to be made.
In German gulch, tributary Of Bear
Run, and little over mile from
town, the false bedrock did not exist
the bedrock being the solid granite,
and the ground was very rich to this
bedrock. In Bear Run gulch the
ground was worked to the false bed
rock. The fact that the placers were
rich in German gulch, on the granite
bedrock, and as far up as the placers
extended, to put forth the theory thar
gravel on the granite lower down is
still richer, is a reasonable conclusion.
If this theory is correct, everything
would be gained by demonstrating it,
and if not, but little would be lost in
making the test by sinking shaft.
What better field can be found any
where than right here in Boise Basin
for the seeker after hidden wealth.
To sink for deep placers here would
be an undertaking, that, if successful
would be successful beyond any dis
covery ever made in Idaho. The
first wash from the gold quartz belt
to the north would naturally be the
richest. If there was a wash before
this false bedrock was formed, it IL
undoubtedly immensely richer thar
the wash after the formation of the
false bedrock. There will come ,
time, when capitalists, looking owe
the possibilities of rich rewards TO
little outlay, will look favorably upoI
the theory that only the surface o
the placers of BOISE Basin has beel
, worked, and will proceed to prospec
for ''deep digging" and we hope tn
day is not far distant. We are firml,
of the opinion that the richest place
ground of Boise Basin is yet to b
discovered.
WIN. WARNER, of Garden Valley
D was brought before the Probate Cour
t a few days ago, charged with assault
d and battery on the person OF y.
h Moore. He was fined $40.